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RESOLUTION NO.
A Resolution directing the City Manager to replace four
rows of chairs in the Commission Chamber with ergonomic
chairs and tables to assist City staff in performing their
duties.
WHEREAS, the Mayor and City Commission sit in comfortable, ergonomic
chairs during Commission meetings; and
WHEREAS, the chairs for the City staff and the public in the Commission
Chamber are 60 years old, low slung, with springed vinyl seats and hard wooden backs;
and
WHEREAS, in 2014 certain members of the Public expressed their deep and
abiding love for these old chairs when the City Manager last suggested replacing them
with more ergonomic chairs; and
WHEREAS, the public can go home at any time during a Commission meeting
should they become uncomfortable, but members of the City staff attending Commission
meetings must sit as long as five hours in the Chamber's 60- year -old hard- backed chairs;
and
WHEREAS, the antiquated hard- backed seating in the Commission Chamber
affords no surface on which City staff can open a Commission agenda, additional backup
items, and a writing pad for taking notes, and is so low slung that no normal table would
be compatible; and
WHEREAS, the Mayor and City Commission wish to provide City staff with
functional and comfortable working conditions, especially when staff must work long, late
hours necessitated by Commission meetings.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY
IHSSION OF THE CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI, FLORIDA, THAT:
Section 1. The City Commission hereby asks the City Manager to replace the
first four rows of hard- backed chairs on the side of the isle where City staff normally sits
with ergonomic seating, plus writing tables for the first two rows of these seats.
Section 2. If any section clause, sentence, or phrase of this resolution is for
any reason held invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, the
holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this resolution.
Section 3. This resolution shall take effect immediately upon adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this u, day of , 2016.
ATTEST:
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READ AND APPROVED AS TO FORM,
COMMISSION VOTE
LANGUAGE, LEGALITY,
Mayor Stoddard:
AND EXECUTION THEREOF:
Vice Mayor Welsh:
Commissioner Edmond:
Commissioner Harris:
Commissioner Liebman:
CITY ATTORNEY
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